CONTENTS:

4 - Meet THE APPLEGATES

   Independent Triton Pictures takes director Michael Lehman’s comic fantasy off the New World Pictures shelf. I Preview by Steve Biodrowski

5 - Tim burton s “edward scissorhands”

   The wunderkind director of weird behind BATMAN and BEETLEJUICE does something really off-the-wall. I Preview by Steve Biodrowksi

6 - Frankenstein bound

   Director Roger Corman’s magnum opus, FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND, sits on the shelf at 20th Century Fox. I Article by Steve Biodrowski

8 - Late for dinner

   W. D. Richter, the director of BUCKAROO BANZAI, returns to the genre with a story of strangers in a strange land. I Preview by Tim Vandehey

9 - Whatever happened to “buckaroo banzai”

   W. D. Richter’s film directing debut turned out to be a cult hit, so why hasn’t Hollywood made the sequel? I Article by Tim Vandehey

10 -  THE SELLING OF “JAMES BOND”

   Up for bids are the rights to the lucrative movie empire spawned by the late Ian Fleming’s legendary secret agent. I Article by Mark A. Altman

13 - Woody Allen s “Alice”

   Filming the special visual effects for Allen’s comic fantasy drama, his take on GHOST by way of Ingmar Bergman. I Preview by Dan Scapperotti

14 - Black rainbow

   Director Mike Hodges' supernatural masterpiece, hailed as “the scariest movie of the year,” can’t find a U. S. distributor. I Article by Alan Jones

16 - Filming Stephen king s “misery”

   To splatter, or not to splatter, director Rob Reiner grapples with the blood and gore, as tortured as Lady Macbeth. I Article by Gary Wood

24 - Stephen king & Hollywood

   With seventeen attempts since CARRIE, King and his movie adaptors tell what went wrong on the horror assembly line. I Article by Gary Wood

26 - Filming Stephen king’s “the dark half”

   Director George Romero puts his adaptation of King’s latest best-seller before the cameras in Pittsburgh for Orion. I Preview by Gary Wood

28 - Adapting Stephen king s “the stand”

   The filming of King’s epic fantasy masterpiece has been a movie deal more than ten years in the making in Hollywood. / Article by Gary Wood

32 - WHAT’S WRONG WITH STEPHEN KING?

   A gourmet’s guide to King’s movie oeuvre reveals how Hollywood at times forgets to put meat on its King-size bun. I Critique by Thomas Doherty

36 -  “Apt pupil”—the lost Stephen king

   The story behind the one that got away, the aborted never-to-be-seen filming of King’s novella from Different Seasons. / Article by Gary Wood

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